The ERA airdrop. Remember it? A brief moment of excitement quickly turned to despair by the harsh truth of Ethereum’s gas fees. A 36.7% spike! That was more than an inconvenience, it was a shot across the bow. This continues to be a grim reminder. Unfortunately, the promise of a...
The blockchain world is constantly searching for the holy grail: a network that can handle massive transaction volumes without sacrificing security or decentralization. Enter Waterfall Network, a layer-1 protocol that’s made some pretty audacious claims regarding its scalability. Yet, does it really make all the promises it claims to? Let’s...
As a result, Waterfall Network has quickly established itself as a game changer in the blockchain technology sector. It now even claims a blistering capacity of more than 12,777 TPS. This milestone outshines even the most established layer-1 blockchains, heralding a new era of scalability and efficiency. In addition, Waterfall...
Let’s face it, the whole alluring crypto pitch was about liberation. Liberation from unelected bureaucratic control, reduced costs, increased velocity of money. For small businesses, the promised reality of crypto payroll as a convenient alternative has frequently missed the mark. Ethereum gas fees on their own can make a simple...
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has made it clear that there’s no way around the need for a 180-degree turn on how this blockchain does things. This change is the latest development in a broader trend to improve both scalability and privacy at the protocol level on Ethereum itself. Buterin’s vision...
Ethereum is about to make a huge move toward their ultimate long-term scalability plan. This involves a major technical upgrade: integrating the zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM) directly into the layer-1 blockchain. For anyone who has been following the evolution of Web3, this is a major leap. Anjali Mehra is...
Okay, let's be real. For every time I almost rage-quit the NFT space because of gas fees I’d be a millionaire today. I’d be bathing in ETH right now! I’m speaking full on Scrooge McDuck piles of digital coinage. I nearly choked on my boba tea last week when I...
Layer 2 solutions such as Optimism, Arbitrum, and Polygon are leading the charge to scale Ethereum and other Layer 1 blockchains. Such technologies increase the speed of transactions, lower costs and make decentralized applications more efficient. At the same time Layer 2 protocols make security and decentralization of Layer 1...
Bitcoin Hyper is emerging as a potential solution to Bitcoin's scalability challenges, offering a Layer 2 approach designed to enhance the cryptocurrency's programmability. As Bitcoin's price surges to $118,000, fueled by increased ETF inflows and rising open interest in options, Bitcoin Hyper is gaining attention as a coin to watch...
High gas fees have been a top pain point for anyone interacting with Ethereum for a long time. These costs can make even simple transactions expensive, hindering the widespread adoption of decentralized applications (dApps) and other blockchain-based services. Layer 2 (L2) scaling solutions are changing the game. They do this...
